Rain drenches parts of Punjab, Haryana

Chandigarh: Parts of Punjab and Haryana recorded rain during the past 24 hours, the Met office said on Friday.

Amritsar (43.4 mm), Nurmahal in Jalandhar (32.5 mm), Gurdaspur (8.2 mm), Ludhiana (6.2 mm), Pathankot (4.4 mm), Rupnagar (2.5 mm) and Mohali (1 mm) in Punjab recorded rainfall in varying degrees in the 24 hours ended at 8.30 am on Friday, it said.

In Haryana, Mahendragarh (17 mm), Hisar (4.2 mm), Panchkula (2 mm), Rohtak (1.2 mm) and Fatehabad (1 mm) recorded rainfall during the same period.

The Met office also informed that temperatures in the two states hovered close to normal.